Cutting from the Laudario of Sant'Agnese
A devotional manuscript cutting, a painted leaf from a laudario, a collection of hymns for lay confraternity use, made in Florence around 1340 by the painter Pacino di Bonaguida and now held by the J. Paul Getty Museum. The picture shows a nude figure laid on a red patterned bier while a haloed figure is lifted by angels above, with robed onlookers at left and a staff-bearing man at right. A designer might draw on its flat gold halos, saturated ultramarine sky, and red damask pattern for a sacred, Gothic-inflected palette.
